Chapter 470 Finale
Negotiations were unsuccessful.
As Zhang Gui himself said, the conflict between the north and the south of Ming Dynasty is already a contradiction that cannot be negotiated.
According to his own interests, Zhang Gui can only choose to support the imperial court in the north.
Feng Xuexian and other landlords and gentry in the south were naturally very disappointed when they learned that Zhang Gui did not agree to the peace negotiation request of people like himself.
Cheng Kegong slumped on the chair because of this, and murmured: "What should I do! I thought that the imperial court has been relying on our south to supply food, and my south has a larger population, and the new king does not have much prestige when he ascends the throne. He could force the imperial court to accept soft measures, but in the end, he ended up being bullied wantonly by Uncle Zhang Guo, who was handed over his power!"
"All of this was originally caused by Uncle Zhang Guo. It was caused by him making His Majesty no longer rely on Huangzhuang for profit, but instead rely on various so-called industrial industries for profit."
Feng Xuexian replied, and said: "Now it seems that we can only suffer from the common people."
"How bitter?"
Cheng Kegong asked.
Feng Xuexian said: "How hard can it be? Increase the tax to raise the army's salary; in addition, continue to recruit more strong and brave soldiers. I hope that before the imperial army goes south, I can have hundreds of thousands more soldiers. Even if I can't defend the Huaihe River, We can defend the south of the Yangtze River, even if we can’t, we can still have enough soldiers and horses to enter Lingnan and Shu. In the end, if it’s really not possible, we should follow the example of Uncle Zhang and go to sea with the people and wealth we have conscripted!”
Cheng Kegong nodded after listening: "That's the only way!"
So, the southern rebels could only continue to levy land taxes on the southern self-cultivators, and at the same time desperately recruited strong men to expand the army.
For a while, the people in the south became even more miserable. They could not freely migrate to the north to work, and they could not go to sea. Serious exploitation.
As a result, a larger-scale civil uprising was aroused.
It also turned many ordinary people into bandits directly.
Of course, this doesn't matter to the officials and gentry in the south. They only care about their own interests, and they don't care about the lives of the common people.
The imperial court is still thriving.
Because in terms of the total population base, the population in the north controlled by the imperial court is still not as good as that in the south.
So in order to encourage the people in the north to join the army and fight to a greater extent, the so-called national scholar policy has been implemented very well. In addition, the policy of exempting corvee and self-cultivating farmers from taxes has also been implemented very well.
This also made the court in the north very popular. Not only was there no civil unrest, but a large number of people actively joined the army.
Not only are there a large number of civilians, but the southern rebels who have just been captured are also willing to join the army and turn their guns to fight the southern rebels.
Then, the rulers in the north, from the emperor to the ministers, needed to liberate the Han people and elevate the status of the Han people because of their own interests, so they really put ordinary Han people in the same position as themselves.
When the emperor sent the newly trained troops to the front line, he would go to the soldiers to talk to them himself.
In addition, Sun Chuanting, Minister of the Ministry of War, even ate and slept with soldiers when he inspected the front line, and he really refused soldiers to kneel in front of him, saying that he wanted to show fellowship.
It can be said that the Han society in the north has really entered a new civilization.
Soon, the imperial army recovered Jinan, followed by Dongchang Mansion, and then directly arrived at the Yellow River, which seized the Huaihe River into the sea in this era.
The commander-in-chief of the southern rebel army, Zuo Liangyu, had to retreat all the way.
Because he had to retreat, his soldiers basically captured strong men, and they would easily collapse once they entered the battle. The key logistics food and grass were not enough. The landlords and gentry smuggled food to Zhang Gui, but they were unwilling to donate enough food. For the rebels on the front line, most of the food that the local officials finally confiscated from some honest and tolerant self-cultivated farmers and common landlords in the south will basically be lost, so that most of the food will be lost to the rebel army. Very little.
The key point is that Zuo Liangyu and his own officers still want to resell a batch of grain, which makes the following group of strong men who were forced to work for the southern landlords and gentry to work for the landlords and gentry, not to mention hungry for them. The key to working hard for the landlords, officials and gentry is to prevent the court from liberating themselves.
In this case, it is naturally difficult for the southern rebels to have combat effectiveness.
So, basically, as soon as the imperial army in the north arrived, the rebels in the south would disperse like birds and beasts, and then they would not disperse like birds and beasts, but just knelt down and waited to be captured.
Because as the two sides fought for longer and longer, the officers and soldiers of the southern rebels discovered that the northern court deliberately did not kill the prisoners in order to pay attention to the feelings of the Han compatriots. Treat people with courtesy and respect.
This caused many rebel soldiers to become less motivated to fight, and even began to wish to be captured by the official army.
Of course, the imperial court also had reasons for doing this.
After all, for the imperial court, the most lacking thing is the labor force, especially the Han labor force. Although the captured southern rebel officers and soldiers are traitors, they are also Han Chinese, and they are also Han Chinese who were forced to betray. It is a pity to kill them, and they can only be absorbed directly. Come here yourself.
Especially when some southern rebels saw themselves captured and lived like human beings anyway, they also thought that their relatives in the south could also live like human beings, coupled with being educated by the literary and artistic works of the imperial court, He also had hatred for the landlords, officials and gentry in the south, and each of them had a stronger will to fight than the imperial court and the army.
So, the next imperial court counter-insurgency can be said to be destroyed.
Not long after, the whole of Nanzhili and Jiangxi were pacified, followed by Zhejiang, Huguang and other places.
Feng Xuexian and Cheng Kegong had no choice but to flee all the way to the west, and went directly to the sea behind, but were blocked by the navy of Xichang.
In general, because of the backwardness of their own production relations, the southern landlords were indeed unable to compete with the industrialized northern court.
Of course the southern landlords themselves don’t want to believe it. After all, they can’t be willing to be slaughtered by the imperial court at will. Naturally, they still want to resist. Only after the resistance will they realize that their class is really backward.
Of course, the southern landlords themselves were not damaged too much. Except for a few officials who committed suicide or died in the chaos, most of them were forgiven by the court who was unwilling to cause too much killing among the Han people after they were captured and surrendered. , Those who could not be killed were not killed.
It was the people who suffered in the end in this rebellion. Many Han people were killed or injured in both the north and the south, especially in the south. Many people were forced to death.
But there is no way, any turmoil will inevitably cause the greatest harm to the common people.
Rao is that this rebellion was only caused by the different positions among the meat eaters.
But this rebellion also taught the southern landlords a heavy lesson and broke their last illusions.
Zhang Guizai also had meritorious service in countering the rebellion. After he resigned from his position as admiral of Xichang, he was conferred the title of Prince and King of Liao.
After Zhang Gui became the queen of Liao Dynasty, he did not stop at his sea dominance. He seized Honolulu, first went to Australia to open iron mines, and also occupied New Zealand. After several years, he still led the fleet to Europa. Both Great Britain and France established their own colonies, and then went to the Americas, and took a large piece of land in the American circle as their colonies.
No way, Zhang Gui has more and more heirs behind him, so he can only occupy as many colonies as possible, otherwise there will not be enough points in the future.
Sorry, this book was not written well, the first transition to writing a non-emperor text was still unsuccessful
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